adavid.util
Class SortableAdapter

java.lang.Object
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Direct Known Subclasses:

SortableObject

public class SortableAdapter

extends java.lang.Object

implements Sortable

Constructor Summary

SortableAdapter(java.lang.Object object)
constructor: the object to be wrapped the object must not be null! if it is null, a NullPointerException will be raised one day, which is a good thing because one is not supposed to sort null objects

Method Summary

boolean	equals(Sortable s) returns true if the given sortable is equal to this object
java.lang.Object	getObject() methods to give access to the wrapped object
boolean	isGreaterThan(Sortable s) returns true if the given sortable is greater (strictly) than this object
boolean	isLessThan(Sortable s) returns true if the given sortable is less (strictly) than this object
void	setObject(java.lang.Object o)
static SortableAdapter[]	toSortableAdapters(java.lang.Object[] objs) convenient method to build arrays of sortable elements
java.lang.String	toString() gives the string representation of this object, used also for the test.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SortableAdapter

public SortableAdapter(java.lang.Object object)

constructor: the object to be wrapped the object must not be null! if it is null, a NullPointerException will be raised one day, which is a good thing because one is not supposed to sort null objects

Method Detail

toSortableAdapters

public static SortableAdapter[] toSortableAdapters(java.lang.Object[] objs)

convenient method to build arrays of sortable elements

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

gives the string representation of this object, used also for the test. Overriding this method may be useful... it is done for ObjectString

Specified by:

toString in interface Sortable

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

isLessThan

public boolean isLessThan(Sortable s)

returns true if the given sortable is less (strictly) than this object

Specified by:

isLessThan in interface Sortable

isGreaterThan

public boolean isGreaterThan(Sortable s)

returns true if the given sortable is greater (strictly) than this object

Specified by:

isGreaterThan in interface Sortable

equals

public boolean equals(Sortable s)

returns true if the given sortable is equal to this object

Specified by:

equals in interface Sortable

getObject

public java.lang.Object getObject()

methods to give access to the wrapped object

setObject

public void setObject(java.lang.Object o)